Brooklin 1960 Ford Convertible color

I just know that colors, especially those on computer monitors, can be extremely hard to judge. Our own eyes differ in sensitivity This is even more true with subtle colors. Color temperature (or actual apparent true hue and light source under which the color is being viewed) all can play a part. Film and digital chips can also change or distort color, as can the age of color samples being used for comparison.

It can not only depend on our individual eyes, but under exactly what light it is being viewed under. Florescent lights, camera flash, strip lighting, tungsten light, etc can all make a noticeable difference. Computer monitors can make a big impact and they are rarely calibrated.There are a number of other factors,like "scale effect", too, all of which can change perceptions.

Those were made between '92 and '98. So, that model is at least 35 years old. Here are some details. Click here. 

When i create models or modify them,  to pick a more or less correct period color,  I often enter into Google a year and make of car such as 1960 Ford colors.    Then click images and lots of color chip pages from different paint makers and sources will show.   Compare one to the other if concerned with fading etc.   Of course it is difficult to compare a color chip on a computer screen to  something in your hand since the lighting for the object is coming from an source different than the computer screen

I usually use Auto Color Library or PaintRef.com. But even resources like those don't always have special issue colors like spring specials. The model makers like Brooklin did not have resources like these thirty years ago and had to eyeball their colors. Now, most makers use software to get accurate paint mixes. 

Thanks everyone. I am attaching photos of the 1:1 car that made me question brooklin’s color.

@chazy-r  I recall seeing this color in very limited numbers back in the day when I was a car crazy kid.  It was a very striking shade and I liked it but many others did not; much the same reaction I noticed when a similar shade was used on the early version of the Dodge Charger.

I had a '69 T-Bird in the color.

@jkuvakas Very nice indeed.  The C pillar "made" this car IMHO.

@jack-dodds Great input. Still not sure of the pink metallic on Brooklin. I have the correct lilac metallic paint and will repaint my Ford sometime soon. I will post photos when completed. Thanks to all

@chazy-r  Good choice. If it were me, I'd also take time to BMF all that trim, thin down those whitewalls (too wide for 1960 )and repaint the convertible top (that pinky-rust color just never worked for me )  Post pics please!

@jkuvakas Wow, nice...especially if it was a 2-door (as you know, they were rare).  Although I loved all those overhead interior lights, I didn't think much of these when they were new, too bloated, bulky, etc..   I like the 2-drs much better now.

Yes, my car was just like this one right down to the wheel covers. The interior was beautiful.

I have the Brooklin '60 Ford model and it is indeed a little too pink. I have the original Ditzler color books and Lilac Grey chip is vary much like the photos off Chazy R's 1:1 car. A little more purple than the Brooklin model. My books have not seen light to fade the chips being that the books have been closed and the chips are painted not ink renditions as some. Ask far as Brooklin colors, most are very good, a few not as much.

@chris That’s exactly what I do on repainting and enhancing white metal models. Also, OEM interior in lilac and white. I am also working on the ugly (but authentic) blue on the 1960 Edsel. I am patterning it after the Conquest Buttercup yellow but with silver and black interior I will post both of them once completed. Thanks